Cultured Travel Guide Books - Around the World in 80 Dates |
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7308422
EAN: 9781416513155
ISBN: 1416513159
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2005-03-29
Publisher: Pocket
Studio: Pocket |
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Summary: a good read
Comment: This book is interesting and keeps your attention the whole way through! At first I was kind of irritated at the author for not giving Olivier, the cute French guy a chance. But then towards the end of the book she starts to realize she has to let things flow and not try to control them. She seems to feel more at home in America than in Europe and starts to unwind a bit and then she falls in love! She planned her dates with no down-time at the beginning and therefore was grumpy all the time! It makes you realize how important it is to always have time for yourself alone otherwise you can't enjoy things no matter how nice they are. Better to travel to one spot and stay a while than to always be on the move and tired.
Great book!
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Summary: A nice gig if you can get it!
Comment: I love reading people's true life accounts of their world travels - I can't afford them right now, so the next best thing is to savour the delight of living vicariously through English workaholics who take six months off work (as travel writers) to go off searching for their soulmate!
It's a unique sort of mission, which makes for an enjoyable read. The author, Jennifer, obviously enjoyed herself and did some soul-searching as well as soul-mate searching.
This chick lit-cum-travel log will please those who like some romance in their travel stories and some travel in their romance!
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Summary: TOUGH CRITIC
Comment: I really enjoyed this book, I love dating books, especially the one of true accounts, in diary form, and traveling out side the U.S. in search of love. This book was fast moving most of the story, but I take my hat off to anyone who is willing to follow even chase after their dreams no matter how far it takes them, it's very inspirational. The other books that I found very much alike were ... "The Bridget Jones Diary" and "The Dream Begins When I Awake."
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Summary: A+ for bravery and positive thinking
Comment: Jennifer Cox could not find love in workaholic London. With contacts worldwide as a PR person for the Lonely Planet travel guidebooks, she sets out to find Mr. Right by sending out a casting call for dates, and ends up with 80 all told.
As others have pointed out, she doesn't date outside her race, barring a mixed Thai-Italian man. This beautiful man is actually a model, but no sparks fly.
Everyone is entitled to their tastes, but this racial restriction seems a bit staid, and amazing for a traveler. Guess her network of Date Wranglers was somewhat restricted in who they recommended to her, consciously or unconsciously?
Among her Caucasian dates, she actually meets Mr. Right. After agonizing about what to do, she decides to continue her journey, and then appears to meet a second Mr. Right, a wonderful American pilot working in New Zealand.
While this causes Cox emotional consternation, it fascinated me as a reader. TWO Mr. Rights in the space of fewer than 80 dates? This needs to be announced to every workaholic woman discouraged by her dating scene.
Cox seems to be a one-woman demography and mating experiment, demonstrating that the very real man shortage for women in their 30s and older in Western cities can be foiled by determination, a sense of adventure, a winning personality, and the willingness to expand one's horizons. Even women without the budget to date men on four continents can take a page from Cox's book to find love on less costly or extensive adventures.
Would especially recommend this book as about 10 times better than the comparable "The Year of Yes" (the author similarly takes control of her dating situation by being positive, and with a good result, but oh the drecky guys she wastes time with on the way) and "My 1,000 Americans: A year-long odyssey through the personals," which is far more depressing as author Rochelle Morton meets loads of narcissistic and married men. I suppose the lesson here is that Cox was wise to rely on her date wranglers, while Morton did far worse using the personal ads.
I'm sure Cox could have found a Londoner as Mr. Right -- had they met each other traveling! A relationship counselor told me once that romance and passion require time, which no one in a demanding job has. Hence the link between travel and romance.
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Summary: Dating Inspiration...
Comment: Have you ever wondered where in the world your soulmate might be hiding? Maybe the reason you haven't met him yet is that he doesn't share you zip code? In fact, he may not even share your continent!
In this poignant, witty, exposed memoir, Jennifer Cox attempts to answer these questions for herself. At 38, still single, a trail of failed relationships looming behind her, this editor and PR manager for Lonely Planet decides to set out from her native London on a round-the-world voyage to locate Mr. RIght. Through the help of internet searches and her "Date Wranglers" she manages to create an 80-date itinerary that spans 6 months and 18 countries.
If you believe in love, fate, following your heart, and braving monsoons, food poisoning, weeks in the desert in order to find what you've always been looking for, this is the book for you!
Singles and not-so-singles alike will revel in Cox's hilarious, plucky, first-person account of her international dateline trials and tribulations. Will she find true love? Will she come up empty, aside from a lot of frequent flyer miles?
Read this engaging, inspiring, page-turner to find out!
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| Sorry, Dorothy--sometimes your heart's desire isn't in your own backyard. Head of PR and spokesperson for Lonely Planet travel guides, Jennifer Cox has explored the most remote regions, toured the most exotic terrains, and bonded with people the world over. So how come finding her soul mate in her own hometown of London is a virtual dead end? Certain that the man of her dreams is out there somewhere, Jennifer sets out on the trip of a lifetime, dating her way around the globe--across 18 countries, in 6 months--to find The One. Around the World in 80 Dates is her fresh, funny, emotionally honest and revealing memoir of her global dating adventures. From the Skate Date in Paris to the High Roller in Vegas, from the Love Professor in Sweden and the Dead Date in Italy to Australia's Penguin Ranger, here is the inside scoop on a bevy of potential partners--a sharply witty and warm hearted true story that will have you breathlessly crisscrossing the international dateline along with Jennifer, to discover where in the world is her Mr. Right. Take off with Jennifer Cox as she goesAround the World in 80 Dates
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